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committees. He has also functioned as the principal financial planner and CFO of numerous businesses seeking to expand their ventures. His early career included corporate positions with General Foods, Kraft,... View Details
- 16 Feb 2015
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Should Business Keep it in the Family?
- 2025
- Working Paper
When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation
By: Vishrut Rana, Christian Kaps and Serguei Netessine
Problem definition: Investments in renewable energy have surged worldwide in recent years, with over $2 trillion spent globally on clean energy. This surge was driven by growing policy support, concerns about energy security, and, most importantly, the cost... View Details
Keywords: Wind Power; Electricity Distribution; Renewable Energy; Profit; Investment Return; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Revenue; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry
Rana, Vishrut, Christian Kaps, and Serguei Netessine. "When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation." Working Paper, January 2025.
- September 2011 (Revised November 2011)
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CP Group: Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses
By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
As a second generation business leader, Chairman Dhanin Chearavanont took over the family agribusiness company and built it to become a major diversified conglomerate in Thailand and expanded the business in SE Asia and China. While growing the business, he and his... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Conglomerates; Family Ownership; Growth and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Thailand; China; Southeast Asia
Kirby, William C., and Tracy Yuen Manty. "CP Group: Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses." Harvard Business School Case 312-059, September 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
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business leaders in emerging markets since 2008. These are hosted on a public website featuring full interview transcripts and associated video clips that are free to download and use for teaching, research, or View Details
- December 2000
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Triad Lessons: Generalizing Results on High Performance Firms in Five Business-to-Business Markets
By: Rohit Deshpandé, John U. Farley and Frederick E. Webster Jr.
Deshpandé, Rohit, John U. Farley, and Frederick E. Webster Jr. "Triad Lessons: Generalizing Results on High Performance Firms in Five Business-to-Business Markets." International Journal of Research in Marketing 17, no. 4 (December 2000): 353–362.
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
In a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review, HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and co-author Sumantra Ghoshal tackled the question, "What is a Global Manager?" Their answer then was that "there is no such thing as a... View Details
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- 27 Jan 2016
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Harvard Business School Launches Precision Trials Challenge
- 01 Oct 2001
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Organizing the Family-Run Business
Generational Changes In The Family Business Board The board of directors in the family firm usually changes over generations and as the ownership of the firm progresses through... View Details
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Employment | Harvard Business School
Every year, in the spirit of giving thanks, we gather as a community to remember what truly matters and what makes Harvard Business School such a unique and remarkable place. Previous Next Benefits & Compensation Time Off See Harvard's... View Details
- 13 Aug 2014
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Family Businesses Need Entrepreneurs for Long-Run Success
- 06 Feb 2014
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Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School
- 09 Jan 2024
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Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year
with a sense of responsibility. Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Jacqueline Ng Lane: Gain advantage via human-AI collaboration Generative AI surged in... View Details
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activities of seven generations of one branch of the Medici family engaged in the manufacture and export of wool, and they remain unique in the annals of business history. Renaissance Medici wool firms... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
of the Climate Rising series on climate resilience, features Sarah Russell, General Manager of Project Bellwether at X, The Moonshot Factory at Alphabet (formerly Google X). Sarah shares how geospatial data and artificial intelligence can... View Details
- December 2001 (Revised March 2003)
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Ben Fiorentino: Selling the Family Business
The caseescribes the challenges Ben Fiorentino, the second-generation head of a family-run equipment business, must deal with as he decides whether and how to sell the business. The business is encountering classic problems that confront family-owned firms: The third... View Details
Watkins, Michael D. "Ben Fiorentino: Selling the Family Business." Harvard Business School Case 902-052, December 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- Sep 11 2017
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Expand Your Business Acumen
- 18 Apr 2016
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Meet the HBS Family Business Club
finance, or for an operating company that is similar to their family’s business before returning to home base. The general management curriculum at HBS exposes students to a variety of functional roles and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2013
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Women's Business Leader
Carla Harris Photo courtesy of Carla Harris On August 12, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Carla Harris (MBA 1987) to be the Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). Harris is a prominent global investment... View Details